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NarratorZ unfortunately, people under the CCP's years of authoritarian rule simply have little experience in dealing with this. They just took to the streets in droves and were quickly driven away

AmyMalik I don't agree with the demonstrators' goals re: covid. I don't think the CN gov is approaching either situation (the demos or covid) correctly.

dr|z3d quite exceptional, nothing like it has been seen in China since Tiananmen.

AmyMalik o.o

NarratorZ Thirty years on, and now the death of another old leader

NarratorZ I hope this time it won't end so badly

dr|z3d here's hoping, NarratorZ.

dr|z3d one thing is obvious, democracy isn't visiting China any time soon.

AmyMalik literally the only thing xj gets right is the zerocovidism.

dr|z3d next up, zero flu.

AmyMalik dr|z3d: meaningful democracy is not. They do have "democracy," it is just a farce.

dr|z3d no, they don't have democracy.

dr|z3d a 1 party state != democracy.

NarratorZ democracy is being lost anywhere.but China is getting close to North Korea

AmyMalik and now we can go into the mines of discussing electoral systems and the like

AmyMalik or, and this is my plan, we can sleep.

dr|z3d that's like saying "you have a choice: you can have a shit sandwich or you can have a shit sandwich."

dr|z3d sleep. and when you wake up, do some research on China, the absence of democracy specifically. :)

dr|z3d you should be aware that NarratorZ is the authority in the channel re China.

NarratorZ :'(

NarratorZ haha, just an ordinary person

dr|z3d :)

dr|z3d if you want a mini-project, NarratorZ, why not put up a site curating some of the Chinese content on the network? Seems to be enough of it now to make a decent site out of.

NarratorZ I possibly do this in another identity

dr|z3d sure, no need to identify yourself.

NarratorZ There are also some minor budgetary issues... Should be okay, incognet's shared hosting is only $40 a year

dr|z3d if you need some webspace for static pages, that's not an issue.

dr|z3d something can be arranged :)

NarratorZ ;-)

dr|z3d if you have different needs, feel free to let me know via pm.

NarratorZ recently, I've been working on a guide to safe Internet access for people who have been fooled behind GFW.

NarratorZ i2p is definitely going to be a huge part of it - obviously, Tor is dead in China

dr|z3d the big question is "can i2p get you into trouble in china?"

dr|z3d I mean, I hear the police are now doing routing searching of phones for vpns and encrypted chat apps..

dr|z3d *routine

NarratorZ they should not dare to enter the house and search yet, and the search against the phone can be mitigated by hidden space. shouldn't be much of a problem

NarratorZ the experience on I2P mobile is too bad:-(

dr|z3d yeah, still very experimental, android.

dr|z3d when it has the full suite of apps, then it might be a bit better.

NarratorZ I am looking forward to idk's revamped version of tor browser becoming our official browser

NarratorZ tor itself aside, at least their browser is indeed a big project

dr|z3d I think the best you can hope for is a custom firefox profile. the tor browser modification project is dead. too much work.

NarratorZ idk have a browser extension,if combined with Librewolf effect should be very good

NarratorZ librewolf is almost a tor browser without Tor - just install the noscript separately

dr|z3d there's more to Tor browser than just noscript. lots of hardening, disabling of features that librewolf no doubt retains.

dr|z3d but sure, with a hardended profile, you should be able to achieve most of what Tor browser achieves in terms of security.

AmyMalik I only know of like two countries with actually no democracy and they're both monarchies. Everywhere else has perverse or farcical democracy, pointless democracy, or true democracy. Pointless seems the most common; most of the US, Canada, Australia, much of Europe and South America display this type.

AmyMalik in a farcical democracy, it's used as an arm of authoritarian control. in a pointless democracy it is irrelevant.

NarratorZ blockchain has the potential to achieve true democracy. But for now, there are only speculators there

AmyMalik *** yawns at tulip talk; dematerializes ***

rambler Ayyo

RN woof

parabo dr|z3d

RN dr|dread is sleeping

not_bob RN: He gets to sleep!?

RN hehehe

not_bob He seems to be awake all hours from what I can tell.

RN yea, dr|feelgood

RN aka

RN dr|robert

RN ;)

StormyCloud Feels like he is awake 24/7, think he lives in the metaverse or something

RN yeah, the handlers behind that account really need to collaborate on creating the illusion of a realistic away time

StormyCloud That would be a good idea, does he have a github or gitlab we can file a bug report?

not_bob StormyCloud! Good to see you!

StormyCloud not_bob: Im always logged in ;)

RN yeah, but we don't see you talk a lot here StormyCloud.

RN that reminds me...

RN what was that thing about $4 the other day?

StormyCloud Oh dr wanted us to test his new feature, cant do work for free :P

not_bob I get that.

not_bob All the stuff I provide for i2p, I do so out of the goodness of my heart.

StormyCloud Of course but gotta give dr a hard time, dont want his ego to get too high

RN based

not_bob heh

RN hey not_bob, if someone gets a review on your blog randomly, is there a process to request a re-check if they fixed or updated things? Or at least for them to request to be added back into the random selection (and noting the older entry that a new review has been requested)

not_bob Not really. I guess they could leave a comment and I'd do that.

RN that works

not_bob It would be easy enough to do.

RN just brainstorming

RN would it be more fair to 'unmark as reviewed' in your selector algo?

not_bob Oh, notbob.i2p is now a stock i2pd jump service because of my blog/comment system.

RN congratulations!

not_bob Someone asked why it wasn't an option for i2pd, so I made it happen.

not_bob Alas, I must take leave.

not_bob Something about a man witha horse.

RN alieve and take a lass

RN ;)

itsjustme Hello :)

RN aloha itsjustme

itsjustme Hey RN!

itsjustme how are you?

RN doing ok. just bumping my head on everything I try today.

RN hbu?

itsjustme I'm doing well :)

itsjustme just chilling :)

itsjustme its the weekend :D

RN mostly same here... little bit of the laundry to do...

RN weekends loose meaning when you are not working

itsjustme :)

RN s/inventing/inventing and abandoning